What’s On in the Northern Quarter ~ Friday 30th June 2017

Various Venues
Sonder Festival 2017

SONDER Festival is a three day music, comedy and arts festival based here in Manchester’s iconic Northern Quarter and spread across several venues. The festival looks to bring together creative talent from across the region and also supports some amazing causes while doing so. SONDER aim to create an incredible festival, while also being able to stay at a price that is inclusive and offers great value for attendees. This year SONDER is showcasing some of the best rising talent around with a plethora of artists who have performed on BBC Introducing, Radio 1, Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio 1 Xtra, XFM and many more, including headliners Prose, The Lottery Winners & Kapital.

Stage & Radio
Tussle with Ivan Smagghe

For the first in a series of Summer parties, Tussle have invited Ivan Smagghe to play the Stage & Radio basement for them. Ivan has been involved in top shelf production for nearly 20 years. He was formerly one half of Blackstrobe and more recently partnered up with Tim Paris to form It’s A Fine Line. However, it’s his skills behind the decks that have solidified his reputation as one of the most respected characters on the underground house & techno scene. The line up is Ivan Smagghe, Chellis and Levi Bibby.

Band On The Wall
Miles Mosley & The West Coast Get Down

Miles Mosley is an upright bassist, vocalist, producer, composer and arranger. As a teen he was selected to play bass for the 1996 Grammy All-American High School Jazz Band & Choir, and was acclaimed as a “technical virtuoso” by Los Angeles Times jazz critic, Don Heckman. He received his classical training at the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, had numerous years of study with jazz bass legends John Clayton, Ray Brown, and Al McKibbon, and received his undergraduate degree in music at UCLA. Since then Mosley has greatly expanded his repertoire, mastering the bass and a vast array of instruments, deftly blending Jazz with Rock, Pop, Funk, and R&B. To celebrate the release of his new LP, ‘Uprising‘, Band On The Wall are delighted to welcome Mosley and his full band, The West Coast Get Down, to play for them. Support comes from Better Days DJs.

Matt & Phreds
The Jeremy Sassoon Band

After the success of Jeremy Sassoon‘s early evening solo gigs, Matt & Phreds are very happy to welcome Jeremy and his band to the club tonight! Manchester based Jazz & Blues singer pianist Jeremy is one of the UK’s most in-demand singer/pianists. Either solo, or accompanied by his band, he captivates audiences with his natural, soulful voice, and a repertoire of his arrangements of Jazz, Blues, Groove, Fusion and Soul classics. Don’t miss this great musician and his band!

Mint Lounge
Top Of The Pops ’17 with Gus Gorman & Martin Glynn

Top Of The Pops keeps up with the Friday night tradition of providing a fantastic selection of music at Mint Lounge to kick start your weekend, with their resident DJs playing an “explosive extravaganza” of dance floor gems, long lasting classics & party starters “guaranteed to make you dance yourself ditzy”!

“From Beyonce to Blondie, to The Killers & Jackson’s Thriller with healthy measures of guilty pleasures…we love the nightlife!”

The Peer Hat
Atomic Catfight #2

Want to know what Atomic Catfight can do for you? This is what Atomic Catfight can do for you… an evening of riotous rockabilly, stomp heavy blues, sweat soaked punk rock & roll. Shake your bits, rattle them hips and move them feet at The Peer Hat to the sound of Snakerattlers, The Mu-Tones and Hopper Propelled Electric.

Night & Day
Electric Jug

The Frog & Bucket
Barrel Of Laughs

MC Phil Ellis presents Tony Burgess, Andrew Ryan and Phil Nichol for The Frog and Bucket‘s flagship Friday night show, Barrel of Laughs. The show goes on until 2am with one of the Frog’s resident DJ’s.

Lost In Tokyo
Tokyo Fridays!

Get lost with Lost In Tokyo‘s resident superstar DJ spinning Disco & Funk classics and topping it off with huge Hip Hop jams for all the kawaii cats to let loose to! There’s free entry as well as 2 cocktails for £10 every night of the week from 4pm – 10pm (excluding hard hitters). Dress well, dress code is smart casual.

NoHo
Friday at NoHo

The Northern Quarter’s “Hippest Boogie Den”, NoHo‘s resident DJs crank up the beats and unleash the classics onto the floor of revellers before them. From high in the DJ control deck he witnesses the shapes, the struts and the boogies as he plays out 80?s soul, funk, disco, rare groove & boogie. You will be moved and if you need to reserve an area or a table so you have your own personal spot then get in touch with the bar.

Eastern Bloc
Tussle Instore x Ivan Smagghe

Tussle will be hosting a little instore pre party at Eastern Bloc Records before their shindig with Ivan Smagghe! It’s the perfect place to spend a summer evening before heading over to the Stage & Radio basement. Residents & friends spinning wax will be Levi Bibby, Yenri and Curtis Jay.

Hula
Ignition starring Gareth Brooks

Head down to Hula for a night filled with and fueled by rum. Expect a wild mix of tiki fun like nowhere else and of course a fantastic soundtrack of old school Hip Hop & R’n’B provided by everyone’s favourite ex-XFM DJ, Mr Gareth Brooks. Get there early, avoid the inevitable queue. TAPS AFF!

Blue Pig
Fridays with DJ Leo Menace

Head to The Blue Pig for Hip-Hop, RnB, House, Disco, Electro, Soul and anything that makes you get up and dance with Friday resident DJ Leo Menace. Mixing dancefloor filling classics, new gems and re-mixes, Leo is known for producing a unique, genre-hopping sound that’s seen him play in clubs, festivals, bars and parties all over the country, from Notting Hill Carnival in London to Tramlines in Sheffield and The Ritz and Sankeys in Manchester. Plus enjoy an all day Happy Hour with £5 cocktails (Noon-close) and £10 house wine & £3 Amstel pint (12-9pm)

Odd Bar
Gold Teeth

The legendary Gold Teeth clubnight takes over Odd every Friday! Gold Teeth holds residencies in Manchester, London, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds and Newcastle, and their resident tearer-upper & veteran of the NQ bar-scene DJ Yung Jozy will be blowing the roof off weekly with everything from classic hiphop & rap to new RnB gems.

Trof
Dig It!

Come celebrate the start of the weekend at Trof NQ as they provide “guaranteed good times” at Dig It! They’ve got all the classic hip hop, motown, soul, funk, reggae, and let’s not forget the guilty pleasures, that you can handle. All this served up by regular DJ’s on rotation including Kev Swindells, Jim Spratling and more.

Twenty Twenty Two
Weekends

Down in the basement at Twenty Twenty Two you find all night partying, ping pong, beer pong and reckless behaviour. Enjoy the good vibes until 4am with a soundtrack of Rap, RnB, Disco, Grooves, Garage, House and Bashment with DJs on rotation – Stylus, Bad Osiris, Klepto, Darka and Murkage Dave, with the odd special guest thrown into the mix too.

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